If Corte Real and his men were in fact the first colonists, they discovered the
site of Fall River, Massachusetts, where their countrymen's descendants today make up
more than half the population. The Portuguese-American section crowds around
the Braga Bridge, named for a sailor of Portuguese descent who died at Pearl Harbor.
"Big Mamie," the battleship U.S.S. Massachusetts, rests enshrined beneath the span.
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